LECTURE NOTES IN MEDICAL ENGINEERING
X-Rays: Wave or Particle — Enter the Dark-Field
Phase-Contrast X-ray Imaging
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Welcome back to Medical Engineering. So today we want to talk a little bit about a new kind of modality. This is called X-ray phase-contrast imaging. So in the following video, we want to talk a bit about whether X-rays are particles or, waves. We’ll see that there are also wave characteristics that we can use to determine phase contrast and related contrasts. So looking forward to exploring a little bit more of X-ray physics with you guys.
So we start with a little motivation. Let’s have a look at what we can find with the phase-contrast images.
So this is the absorption image. So you’ve already seen that for quite some time and we know that this is essentially just the absorption effect just a regular X-ray image. You see that we see bones here very well and this is a mouse that you can see here in this image. But there’s more to that. There is the so-called differential phase and this is measuring the phase shift and here we get a very different contrast and to be honest we get a derivative with respect to x-direction that is reconstructed. You see that we see the very fine structures here in the lung. Yet we have a third modality here and the third modality is the so-called dark-field image. This is a very different contrast than…
